"What usually follows is a long lecture on how the Dvorak keyboard layout is better than QWERTY in every way. My friends usually humor me — this has happened several times — but I’ll spare you the sermon and make it short. Out of the hundreds of reasons you should switch to Dr.

"I’m not using a qwerty keyboard to write this article. The world has been using the qwerty keyboard layout since 1874, and it’s safe to say most of us have no idea that anything else exists. A few months ago I discovered a great alternative to the venerable qwerty: Dvorak Simplified ..."

Almost all the newest hardware coming out has Linux support. The critical mass has been reached, and it's time everyone tried Ubuntu.

In a recent MarketWatch article, John C. Dvorak suggests that, in order to counter pressure from Microsoft's Silverlight, Adobe should port their software to Linux and design a specialized Linux OS that is optimized to run their suite of applications really well and really fast. Dvorak suggests this as blow to Microsoft, since it would promote Linux.

Colemak was designed after the QWERTY and Dvorak layouts were designed. In fact, of the three, it’s the only keyboard layout that was designed after computers were invented. Colemak is free and licensed under the Public Domain

LIKE HIM or hate him, the man is considered influential and his words on Microsoft as of late have not been particularly encouraging. He has already moved some computer/s of his to GNU/Linux, which impressed him. Now he opines that Google, a "Linux poster child" in some people's eyes, may replace Microsoft.

Sam Varghese is a columnist for the IT Wire website who likes Ubuntu and apparently has great respect for Mark Shuttleworth. He writes opinion pieces that I often disagree with but he most certainly is entitled to his opinion. He has now, on three separate occasions this year, written pieces which are harshly critical of Ubuntu's detractors.

During a session at the 2007 Online News Association conference in Toronto, Canada, I had a chance to point my video camera at Forbes columnist (and Fake Steve Jobs blogger) Dan Lyons.

There are users who are totally resistant to change. Why? Because it disrupts their workflow. It makes them less productive. Change makes them cranky. However, there are times when change is needed and we have to lobby for it. So how now?